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16 years ago

Fixed Point or Floating point implementation

I need to implement closed loop controllers like multiple PID controller in FPGA. I also need to do some signal preconditioning and signal processing in fpga. I would like to know if its bett...
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16 years ago

Thanks for your reply.

Is the IEEE VHDL 200X fixed point package by David Bishop a good one to start with if I use fixed point?

You are correct the floating point implementation takes up a lot of logic and clocks.